I’ve already done this as “My Loving Saviour, How Have I Offended You” from CWB I and the backing there is not terrible really.
The tune is HERZLIEBSTER JESU by Johann Cruger, harmonised by Johann Sebastian Bach. The confronting text on the Passion is by Johann Heerman and translated by Robert Seymour Bridges. See the previous post about this song for other possibilities.
I just made it noisy BIAB church organ this time.
The text is again slightly different to elsewhere but Gio will be happy to know Anthony Petti was not involved.
1 Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,
that man to judge thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.2 Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee!
‘Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee:
I crucified thee.3 Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
the slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered.
For man’s atonement, while we nothing heedeth,
God interceedeth.4 For me, kind Jesus, was thine incarnation,
thy mortal sorrow, and thy life’s oblation;
thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion,
for my salvation.5 Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee,
I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee,
think on thy pity and thy love unswerving,
not my deserving.